ON Friday, October 15 I was by the cenotaph at Swindon Town Hall at 12.15pm looking at a banner that had Get Our Troops Out Of Iraq and Justice For Palestine printed on it.
Also looking at this was a man in green overalls.
He looked at the banner for about ten minutes then attacked it with a knife and ripping it badly.
At the same time he was shouting that there were no democratic countries in the Middle East.
"Name me one democracy in the Middle East it's Israel," he said.
As I served in Palestine, as it was then, from 1945 to 1948 and we lost more than 700 troops there I would ask people to stop believing this sort of propaganda spread.
Anyone know where the banner ended up?
A Thipthorpe
Toothill
Swindon
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